"New outfit, huh?" He can't help but stare a little.
❛ yeah, figured i should dress for the environment if i know i'm stayin' for a while. easier to shake sand outta this, at least. ❜ he means to give the hem of his shirt a shake as mere punctuation, but a pinch of trapped sand does spill out, proving his point immediately. it's certainly more practical to wear a simple & already worn cotton shirt than to hold on to the jacket with the persistent duo of local sun & sand ( even having lived over a consecutive year in alola once, living in a beach house, sand's ability to sneak up on one never stops surprising satoshi ) .
practical. that's always been satoshi's main thing, so long as something is practical & comfortable in travel & battle, it's good enough for him. but ... maybe it's that hau so often looks as nice as comfortable, maybe it's as simple as valuing his imput ...
a pointless readjustment of the clasps of his brace, a shy fidget. ❛ ... what do you think ?? ❜ if he's honest with himself, he'd like if hau thought he looked as nice as comfortable, too.
( it's something new every day with this guy, seriously, making him care about stuff like that. )